1896.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 345 



diverging. Disc 4-lobed. Ovary immersed in the disc, 4-lobed, 4- 

 celled ; style short, stigma capitate ; ovules solitary and pendulous from 

 the top of each cell. Capsule subglobose, coriaceous, 1-4-celled, 1-4- 

 seeded. Seeds as in Euonymus. — Distrib. Species 7 ; in Ceylon, Southern 

 India, and Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaves 25 to 3*5 in. long ... ... \. G. Scortechinii. 



„ 6 to 12 in. long ... ... 2. G. quadra^igulare. 



1. Glyptopetalum Scortechinii, n. sp. King. Young branches 

 terete, striate. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, often slightly obovate, very 

 shortly and obtusely cuspidate, the edges with a few remote obscure 

 serratures in the upper third, the base cuneate ; main nerves 8 to 10 

 pairs, spreading, much curved, very faint and not more prominent than 

 the intermediate and secondary nerves ; length 2 5 to 3'5 in., breadth 

 135 to 1*75 in., petioles '25 in. Flowering peduncles rather stout, supra- 

 axillary, 1*5 to nearly 2 in. long ; pedicels 2 or 3, under an inch in 

 length. Fruit broadly obovate, deeply 5-lobed, glabrous, '45 in. long, 

 the 5 sub-rotund reflexed sepals persistent at its base. 



Perak : Scortechini, No. 1617. 



A species collected only by the late Rev. Father Scortechini, whose 

 specimens are not in flower. He referred the plant to Euonymus, but 

 the solitary ovules in the cells of the immature fruit show that its 

 place is in Glyptopetalum. 



2. Glyptopetalum quadrangulare, Prain MSS. in. Herb. Calc. A 

 shrub 8 to 15 feet high ; young branches boldly 4-angled, narrowly 

 winged. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly acumi- 

 nate, obscurely and remotely serrate in the upper half, the base rounded 

 or cuneate ; both surfaces bullate, the upper shining, the lower dull ; 

 main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, when dry much depressed on the upper and 

 very prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations wide and dis- 

 tinct ; length 6 to 12 in., breadth 2*5 to 5 in., petiole '3 to -6 in. 

 Cymes much shorter than the leaves, dichotomous, minutely 2-bracteolate 

 at the bifurcations, axillary, few-flowered, on slender peduncles 

 1-5 to 2 in. long (nearly twice as long in fruit). Flowers '3 in. in 

 diam., their pedicels 2-5 in. long (longer in fruit). Sepals 4, nar- 

 rowly reniform, entire. Petals 4, attached to the edges of the thick 

 fleshy 4-lobed disc, much longer than the sepals, broadly rotund-reni- 

 form, clawed, the edges incurved, smooth. ^n^/ie?-s reniform ; the cells 

 on short thin filaments, sub-orbicular. Ovary sunk in the disc, the 

 capitate stigma alone projecting, 4-celled : ovules solitary. Fruit de- 

 pressed, obtusely 4-angled, capsular, '4 to '6 in. in diam. 



Perak : Scortechiai No. 524. Wray No. 3229 : King's Collector 

 Nos. 7106, 8222. 



